Electric motor or generator



F. E, FISHER.

ELECTRIC MOTOR 0R GENERATUR /fih 5%@ 2 Sheets--Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

P. E. FISHER.

ELEOTRIO MOTOR OR GENERATOR.

No.v 350,728. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

N PEEnS. mummia. wnmgwmuc.

UNITED STATES To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, FRANK E. FISHER, of Detroit, county of Naync, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Electric Mot-ors or Generators 5 and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe saine, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being` had to the accompanying drawings, which vt'orm a part of this specitication.

My invention consists of the combinations of devices and appliances hereinafter specied, and more particularlypointed out in the claims.

Figure l of the drawings is a side elevation of an electric motor embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 isa plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 4f. is a detail view of the commutator. Fig. 5 illustrates the winding of the armature-bobbins and the method of connecting thein with the commutator-segmeuts.

It is the purpose of my invention to produce a motor which shall be of simple construction, and which shall be capable of delivering a larger percentage of the power required to runv it, and this I purpose to accomplish by so constructing the motor that the plane of revolution of its armature shall be in the same plane with the two poles of the fieldmagnets and in a plane parallel with and between two other planes containing, respectively, the two field-magnets.

Heretofore in the construction of electric cnerators or motors :it has been customary, s a usual thing, to so adjust the armature vith respect to the held-magnets that in revolving the bobbins would pass transversely vhrough the :field ot' l'orce adjacent to one of he poles and then transversely through the ield of force adjacent to the other pole. In l y device, however, I have located the plane t' revolution of the armature parallel to and etween two planes, each of which contains one i fthe field-magnets and has united the opposite ynds of these held-magnets by a pole-piece or i late of iron extending troni one across tothe ther in such manner that instead of revolvng through the :field adjacent to the poles repectively the armature is caused to revolve ithin the plane containing the poles of the PATENT OFFICE.,

FRANK E. FISHER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

ELECTRIC MOTOR OR GENERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,728, dated October 12.1886.

.Application filed A pril .'30, ISES.

Serial No. 200,665. (No model.)

machine, so that the poles shall be opposite the periphery ol' the armature and diametrically opposite each other.

In carrying out iny invention, A and B are the field-magnets connected by iron connections or pole-pieces C, so that, as seen in Fig. 2, the locality ot" the poles ci.' the field-niagnets shall be practically carried out into that portion of the plate opposite the periphery of the armature and in its plane of revolution.

D is the armature. E is its commutator. The bobbins ofthe armature may be connected up with the sections of the comniutator in any usual way, and the commutator may be of any usual construction. In the machines I have made, however, I have employed the method ot winding illustrated in Fig. 5, in which the bobbins are successively connected with each other and by radial wires with the segments of the commutator.

rFhe commutator is shown in detail in Fig. 4, and consists ol'a small cylinder of hard rubber, vulcanized liber, leatheroid, or other nonconducting substance, into which small pieces of angle-bar c are set, by pressure or otherwise. The wires leading from the bobbins of the armature toward the hub, as shown in Fig. 5, are soldered or otherwise t'astcncd tothe angle-bars c.

F represents brushes which bear upon the eonnnutator in the usual manner. I find it convenient to construct the device, substantially as shown in the drawings, to locate one of the field-magnets upon one side of the axle of the armature and the other field-magnet upon the opposite side ol" said axle beyond the armature.

I have found a machine constructed as illustratcd and described operates with very much less resistance, and consequently delivers a greater effective force with the saine impellingcurrent than any form of machine with which I am acquainted, and I attribute this increased efficiency to the fact that the construction is such that the armature revolves diametrically between and in. the plane containing the poles, instead of being obliged to cut through the said plane transversely. I am also ofthe opinion that a beneficial effect in lessening the resistance to the revolution of the armature is obtained by the location ot' the armature with respect to the poles, so that its bobbins shall IOC have a motion rst transversely from end to -end of one magnet in a direction across or through the planes of its successive convolutions of wire. and then in like manner from end to end of the other field-magnet.

While I have described this device in connection with a motor, it is apparent that it is equally applicable in dynamo-electric generators, and I would have it understood that my claims apply with equal effect to a generator as to a motor.

WVhat I claim is- 1. Anelectric motor or machine consisting of two field-magnets connected by iron polepieces at their ends, an armature located and adapted to revolve in a plane between the planes of the held-magnets respectively, and diametrically between said pole-pieces, one of said eld-magnets being located upon one side of the armature in advance of its a-Xlc, the other upon the other side of the armature and back of its axle, aseries of bobbins on said armature connected into a single circuit, and said -of two ield-magnets connected by iron polepieces at their ends, an armature located and adapted to revolve in a plane between the 3 planes of the field-magnets respectively, and diametrically between said pole-pieces', one of said magnets located upon 011e side of the axle of the armature and the other magnet located in advance of the same upon the other side of 3 5 the axle of the armature and beyond the plane of revolution ofthe armature, substantially as described.

Intestirnony whereof I sign this speciication in the presence of two witnesses.

` FRANK E. FISHER. W'itnesses: M. B. ODOGHERTY, N. S. WRIGHT. 

